- Understanding your relative or friend's illness
- Having time for yourself in the day
- Managing your relative or friend's symptoms
- Help with financial, legal and work issues
- Providing personal care for your relative or friend
- Dealing with your feelings and worries
- Who to contact when you're concerned about your friend or relative
- Looking after your own health
- Equipment to help care for your relative or friend
- Beliefs or spiritual concerns
- Talking with your relative or friend about their illness
- Practical help in the home
- What to expect in the future when caring for a friend or relative
- Getting a break from caring overnight
- Young carers
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers
- LGBTIQ+ community
Providing personal care for your relative or friend
(Helpful resources and links)
Department of Health and Ageing - National Continence Strategy
Strategy booklet on Help for people who care for someone with bowel or bladder problems.
Caresearch
Caresearch is an online resource designed to help those needing relevant and trustworthy information and resources about palliative care. The website has been funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing.
Caresearch has useful information and further resources on how to get practical help.
Canadian Virtual Hospice
Canadian Virtual Hospice has information on palliative care, end-of-life care, loss and grief.
- Help with bathing
- Help with eating
- Care of the mouth
- Caring for hair and face
- Help with toileting
- Preventing bed sores
Other online resources
- Personal care grooming and dressing article from the Caregivers Library.
- Videos and people’s stories on their experience with personal care from Health Talk Online.
Last Modified: Monday, 10 August 2020